4.9.2023 – let us love, deare Love,

let us love, deare Love,
as we ought — is the lesson
which the Lord us taught

Amoretti is a sonnet cycle written by Edmund Spenser in the 16th century.

Sonnet 68 corresponds to Easter Sunday.

Most glorious Lord of Lyfe! that, on this day,
Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin;
And, having harrowd hell, didst bring away
Captivity thence captive, us to win:
This joyous day, deare Lord, with joy begin;
And grant that we, for whom thou diddest dye,
Being with Thy deare blood clene washt from sin,
May live for ever in felicity!

And that Thy love we weighing worthily,
May likewise love Thee for the same againe;
And for Thy sake, that all lyke deare didst buy,
With love may one another entertayne!
So let us love, deare Love, lyke as we ought,
— Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Christ lived, died and rose again for everyone on this past, present and future world.

And grant that we, for whom thou diddest dye.

So let us love, deare Love, lyke as we ought,

— Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Small price to pay for such services rendered.